How to create file execute mode permissions in Git on Windows?

Question

I use Git in Windows, and want to push the executable shell script into git repo by one commit.

Usually I need to do two steps (git commit).

$ vi install.sh $ git add install.sh   $ git commit -am "add new file for installation" # first commit [master f2e92da] add support for install.sh  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)  create mode 100644 install.sh $ git update-index --chmod=+x install.sh $ git commit -am "update file permission"        # second commit [master 317ba0c] update file permission   0 files changed   mode change 100644 => 100755 install.sh 

How can I combine these two steps into one step? git configuration? windows command?

Remind: Two answers are good, git add --chmod=+x file is supported in new git version

Reference: see question in Git file permissions on Windows for second commit

Answer 1

There's no need to do this in two commits, you can add the file and mark it executable in a single commit:

C:\Temp\TestRepo>touch foo.sh  C:\Temp\TestRepo>git add foo.sh  C:\Temp\TestRepo>git ls-files --stage 100644 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 0       foo.sh 

As you note, after adding, the mode is 0644 (ie, not executable). However, we can mark it as executable before committing:

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git update-index --chmod=+x foo.sh  C:\Temp\TestRepo>git ls-files --stage 100755 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 0       foo.sh 

And now the file is mode 0755 (executable).

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git commit -m"Executable!" [master (root-commit) 1f7a57a] Executable!  1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)  create mode 100755 foo.sh 

And now we have a single commit with a single executable file.